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State of the art in research on equity in healthBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 31:11-32. 2006....
Policy characteristics facilitating primary health care in Thailand: A pilot study in transitional countryKrit Pongpirul
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Int J Equity Health 8:8. 2009..Information on other main attributes of primary health care policy was also ascertained...- Reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the Child Health and Illness Profile (CHIP) Child-Edition, Parent Report Form (CHIP-CE/PRF)Maria Dolors Estrada
Agència d Avaluació de Tecnologia i Recerca Mèdiques, Roc Boronat 81 95, Barcelona, Spain
Health Qual Life Outcomes 8:78. 2010..S. version... - Properties of a short questionnaire for assessing primary care experiences for children in a population surveySilvina Berra
Catalan Agency for Health Information, Assessment and Quality, Barcelona, Spain
BMC Public Health 11:285. 2011..This work aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of a selection of items from the child short edition (CS) of the PCAT... - Comparison of primary care experiences among adults in general outpatient clinics and private general practice clinics in Hong KongSamuel Y S Wong
School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
BMC Public Health 10:397. 2010..The objective of the current study was to compare the primary care experiences of GOPC users and the users of care provided by private general practitioners (GPs) in Hong Kong via a territory-wide telephone survey... - Transforming medical professionalism to fit changing health needsThomas Plochg
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Med 7:64. 2009..However, it may also be necessary to initiate basic changes to way in which the medical professionals work in order to adapt to the changing health needs... - Routine care provided by specialists to children and adolescents in the United States (2002-2006)Jose M Valderas
National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, The University of Manchester, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 9:221. 2009..Our objective was to quantify and characterize routine and co-managed pediatric healthcare as provided by specialists in community settings... - The primary care physician workforce: ethical and policy implicationsBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ann Fam Med 5:486-91. 2007..We undertook a study to examine the characteristics of countries exporting physicians to the United States according to their relative contribution to the primary care supply in the United States... - Access, primary care, and the medical home: rights of passageBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Med Care 46:1015-6. 2008 - Primary care and specialty care: a role reversal?Barbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Med Educ 37:756-7. 2003 - Equity and health: a perspective on nonrandom distribution of health in the populationBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Rev Panam Salud Publica 12:384-7. 2002.... 
Reinventing primary care: lessons from Canada for the United StatesBarbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1030-6. 2010....- Income redistribution is not enough: income inequality, social welfare programs, and achieving equity in healthBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins University, 624 North Broadway, Room 452, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:1038-41. 2007..A health system oriented around a strong primary care base is an example of such a strategy... - Comorbidity and the use of primary care and specialist care in the elderlyBarbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:215-22. 2005..The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between morbidity burden, comorbid conditions, and use of primary care and specialist services.. - Global health, equity, and primary careBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins University and Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 20:511-3. 2007..World organizations of primary care physicians need to take up the challenge before it becomes a crisis... - Why is the grass greener?Barbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMJ 330:727-9. 2005 - On continuity of care in pediatric trainingBarbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 452, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Pediatrics 114:1082. 2004 - U.S. child health: what's amiss, and what should be done about it?Barbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:165-70. 2004.... - Promoting equity in health through research and understandingBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 452, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA
Dev World Bioeth 4:76-95. 2004..This paper will focus on the first of these aims, in a context that facilitates attention to the second and third aims... - Equity, social determinants, and children's rights: coming to grips with the challengesBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ambul Pediatr 5:134-7. 2005 - Contribution of primary care to health systems and healthBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Milbank Q 83:457-502. 2005..The means by which primary care improves health have been identified, thus suggesting ways to improve overall health and reduce differences in health across major population subgroups... - Pathways of influence on equity in healthBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, USA
Soc Sci Med 64:1355-62. 2007..It makes the case for a conceptualization of influences on equity that explicitly includes distribution of health as an outcome as well as characteristics of the society as influences... - The impact of primary care and what States can doBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
N C Med J 68:204-7. 2007 - [Primary health care and responsibilities of public health in 6 countries of Europe and North America: a pilot study]Barbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 452, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Rev Esp Salud Publica 78:17-26. 2004..In order to know the locus of responsibility for various types of preventive activities, we undertook an inquiry on eight areas in six countries from Europe and North America... - Comorbidity: implications for the importance of primary care in 'case' managementBarbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ann Fam Med 1:8-14. 2003..Although comorbidity is very common in the population, little is known about the types of health service that are used by people with comorbid conditions... - The effects of specialist supply on populations' health: assessing the evidenceBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2005..Adverse effects from inappropriate or unnecessary specialist use may be responsible for the absence of relationship between specialist supply and mortality... - Evaluating the State Children's Health Insurance Program: critical considerationsB Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 1996, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 21:569-85. 2000..This article details approaches that can appropriately be used to address each of these aspects of concern... - William Pickles Lecture. Primary and specialty care interfaces: the imperative of disease continuityBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 452, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Br J Gen Pract 53:723-9. 2003 - Consumer experiences and provider perceptions of the quality of primary care: implications for managed careB Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Fam Pract 46:216-26. 1998..The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which consumer and provider reports of primary care differ according to particular characteristics of the primary care setting... - Social class gradients in health during adolescenceB Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:354-61. 2002..To review existing data on social class gradients in adolescent health and to examine whether such gradients exist in new data concerning US adolescents... - Policy relevant determinants of health: an international perspectiveBarbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Room 452, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205 1996, USA
Health Policy 60:201-18. 2002.... - Primary care and genetic services. Health care in evolutionBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Eur J Public Health 12:51-6. 2002..Several models for dealing with these challenges are presented, including algorithms that aid in recognizing genetic problems... - An international perspective on the basis for payment for performanceBarbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, 624 North Broadway, Room 452, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Prim Care 18:399-404. 2010..Attention to resolution of patients' problems is an important aim of quality improvement activities. Alternative modes of improving patient care may be better than the QOF... - The concept of prevention: a good idea gone astray?B Starfield
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205 1990, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:580-3. 2008.... - Social class gradients and health in childhoodBarbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ambul Pediatr 2:238-46. 2002..To determine if there are social class gradients in health in children aged 6 to 11 years... - Reliability and validity of the adolescent health profile-typesA W Riley
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 36:1237-48. 1998..The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the preliminary reliability and validity of a set 13 profiles of adolescent health that describe distinct patterns of health and health service requirements on four domains of health... - Income inequality, primary care, and health indicatorsL Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene, Baltimore, MD 21205 1996, USA
J Fam Pract 48:275-84. 1999.... - Primary care, social inequalities and all-cause, heart disease and cancer mortality in US counties: a comparison between urban and non-urban areasL Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 406, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Public Health 119:699-710. 2005.... - Entry into primary care and continuity: the effects of accessC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 88:1330-6. 1998..This study examined the relationship between access and use of primary care physicians as sources of first contact and continuity with the medical system... - A taxonomy of adolescent health: development of the adolescent health profile-typesA W Riley
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 36:1228-36. 1998..The intent was to be able to assign individuals to mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups that characterize the important aspects of their health and need for health services... - Gatekeeping and referral of children and adolescents to specialty careC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 104:28-34. 1999..In this study we examined how gatekeeping arrangements influence referrals to specialty care for children and adolescents in private and Medicaid insurance plans... - The pediatric primary-specialty care interface: how pediatricians refer children and adolescents to specialty careC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 153:705-14. 1999..To describe how pediatricians refer patients to specialists, including frequency of referral decisions, reasons for referral, and types of referrals... - Coordination of specialty referrals and physician satisfaction with referral careC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 154:499-506. 2000..To describe how physicians coordinate patient care for specialty referrals and to examine the effects of these activities on referring physicians' satisfaction with the specialty care their patients receive and referral completion... - The effect of primary care physician supply and income inequality on mortality among blacks and whites in US metropolitan areasL Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene, 624 N Broadway, Room 409, Baltimore, MD 21205 1996, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1246-50. 2001..This study assessed whether income inequality and primary care physician supply have a different effect on mortality among Blacks compared with Whites... - Improving equity in health: a research agendaB Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205-1996, USA
Int J Health Serv 31:545-66. 2001..Because of their relative neglect in the existing literature on equity in health, the special roles of political forces and of primary care as a particularly key element of health services are stressed... - Managed care, primary care, and quality for childrenR J Reid
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 8:164-70. 1996..Because managed care arrangements are proliferating rapidly, better studies are needed to prove or refute the contention that managed care has a significant positive effect on quality of care... - Prevalence, expenditures, and complications of multiple chronic conditions in the elderlyJennifer L Wolff
Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 304, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:2269-76. 2002..Better primary care, especially coordination of care, could reduce avoidable hospitalization rates, especially for individuals with multiple chronic conditions... - Primary care, self-rated health, and reductions in social disparities in healthLeiyu Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene, Baltimore MD 21205-1996, USA
Health Serv Res 37:529-50. 2002..In conclusion, good primary-care experience is associated not only with improved self-rated overall and mental health but also with reductions in disparities between more- and less-disadvantaged communities in ratings of overall health... - The relationship between primary care, income inequality, and mortality in US States, 1980-1995Leiyu Shi
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 16:412-22. 2003.... - The health profile of incarcerated male youthsC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 105:286-91. 2000..To identify the health needs of adolescent males incarcerated in a juvenile justice facility and to compare their health profiles with those of male adolescents in the community... - Elementary school-aged children's reports of their health: a cognitive interviewing studyG Rebok
Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Public Health, School of Arts and Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Qual Life Res 10:59-70. 2001..These results provide the guidance needed to develop and test a pediatric health status questionnaire for children 6-11 years old... - The medical home, access to care, and insurance: a review of evidenceBarbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 113:1493-8. 2004..A concerted attempt to provide a means of universal financial access as well as a medical home should be of high priority for the United States... - Variability in physician referral decisionsBarbara Starfield
School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 15:473-80. 2002..The impact of this variability on costs and outcome could be considerable and deserves more intensive study... - Clinical care and health disparitiesB Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 33:89-106. 2012..Starting with the assumption that health services, as one aspect of social services, ought to enhance equity in health care, we conclude with a discussion of threats to that role and what might be done about them... - Self-referral in point-of-service health plansC B Forrest
Health Services Research and Development Center, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 689, Baltimore, MD 21205USA
JAMA 285:2223-31. 2001..Few data are available from formal evaluations of this new type of plan... - The Parent Report Form of the CHIP-Child Edition: reliability and validityAnne W Riley
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 42:210-20. 2004.... - Commentary: primary care and health outcomes: a health services research challengeBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins University, 624 North Broadway, Room 452, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 42:2252-6; discussion 2294-323. 2007 - The Child Report Form of the CHIP-Child Edition: reliability and validityAnne W Riley
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 42:221-31. 2004..There is increasing recognition of the importance of obtaining children's reports of their health, but significant challenges must be overcome to do so in a systematic, population-based manner... - Primary care in Canada: coming or going?Barbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Healthc Pap 8:58-62; discussion 64-7. 2008..The Canadian commitment to primary care research has been very weak. Its strengthening would help Canada to move ahead and could contribute greatly to the advancement of primary care as a worldwide imperative of the 21st century... - Primary care quality: community health center and health maintenance organizationLeiyu Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene, Baltimore, MD 21205 1996, USA
South Med J 96:787-95. 2003.... - Primary care physician specialty referral decision making: patient, physician, and health care system determinantsChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Decis Making 26:76-85. 2006..To examine the effects of patient, physician, and health care system characteristics on primary care physicians' (PCPs') specialty referral decision making... - Primary care, income inequality, and stroke mortality in the United States: a longitudinal analysis, 1985-1995Leiyu Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 409, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Stroke 34:1958-64. 2003..The goal of this study was to test whether primary care reduces the impact of income inequality on stroke mortality... - Predictors of children's healthcare use: the value of child versus parental perspectives on healthcare needsChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 42:232-8. 2004..The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between healthcare use and children's healthcare needs as assessed from the perspectives of children themselves, parents, and healthcare practitioners... - Managed health plan effects on the specialty referral process: results from the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network referral studyChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 41:242-53. 2003..This study examines the influence of gatekeeping arrangements and capitated primary care physician (PCP) payment on the specialty referral process in primary care settings... - Family physicians' referral decisions: results from the ASPN referral studyChristopher B Forrest
Health Services Research and Development Center, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Fam Pract 51:215-22. 2002..To examine family physicians' referral decisions, which we conceptualized as having 2 phases: whether to refer followed by to whom to refer... - Primary care, race, and mortality in US statesLeiyu Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene, Baltimore, MD 21205 1996, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:65-75. 2005..The study provides evidence that primary care resources are associated with population health and could aid in reducing socioeconomic disparities in health... - Primary care, social inequalities, and all-cause, heart disease, and cancer mortality in US counties, 1990Leiyu Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 406, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 95:674-80. 2005..We tested the association between the availability of primary care and income inequality on several categories of mortality in US counties... - The utility of social capital in research on health determinantsJ Macinko
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 624 N Broadway Room 447, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Milbank Q 79:387-427, IV. 2001..Elements of a research agenda are proposed to further elucidate the potential role of factors currently subsumed under the rubric of "social capital.".. - Primary care, infant mortality, and low birth weight in the states of the USAL Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 406, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:374-80. 2004.... - Ambulatory specialist use by nonhospitalized patients in us health plans: correlates and consequencesBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 32:216-25. 2009..Controlling for differences in the degree of morbidity, receiving care from multiple specialists is associated with higher costs, more procedures, and more medications, independent of the number of visits and age of the patient... - Foreward. Improving children's health. How population-based research can inform policy--the Manitoba experienceBarbara Starfield
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Can J Public Health 93:S7. 2002 - A case for government ownership of primary care services in New Zealand: weighing the argumentsPeter Crampton
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Int J Health Serv 34:709-27. 2004..The authors argue that private organizations that lack community governance have a lesser role... - Quality and outcomes framework: patient-centred?Barbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Lancet 372:692-4. 2008 - Validity of the Spanish version of the Child Health and Illness Profile-Adolescent Edition (CHIP-AE)Luis Rajmil
Agència d Avaluació de Tecnologia i Recerca Mèdiques, Barcelona, Spain
Med Care 41:1153-63. 2003..To assess the structural, convergent, discriminant, and criterion validity of the Spanish version of the Child Health and Illness Profile-Adolescent Edition (CHIP-AE) and to compare results with the U.S. version... - Perceived health status and use of healthcare services among children and adolescentsSilvina Berra
Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research CAHTA, Barcelona, Spain
Eur J Public Health 16:405-14. 2006.... - The contribution of primary care systems to health outcomes within Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, 1970-1998James Macinko
Department of Health Administration and Planning, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Health Serv Res 38:831-65. 2003..3) The proposed scale can also be used to monitor health reform efforts intended to improve primary care... - Interpersonal continuity: old and new perspectivesBarbara Starfield
Br J Gen Pract 57:527-9. 2007 - Does community-governed nonprofit primary care improve access to services? Cross-sectional survey of practice characteristicsPeter Crampton
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand
Int J Health Serv 35:465-78. 2005..The findings support the shift to nonprofit community governance occurring in New Zealand and elsewhere... - Insurance and the U.S. health care systemBarbara Starfield
N Engl J Med 353:418-9. 2005 - Income inequality and health: a critical review of the literatureJames A Macinko
New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:407-52. 2003..Future studies will require a more comprehensive model of health production that includes health system covariates, sufficient sample size, and adjustment for inconsistencies in income inequality data... - Comparison of private for-profit with private community-governed not-for-profit primary care services in New ZealandPeter Crampton
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
J Health Serv Res Policy 9:17-22. 2004..The study highlights for communities, policy-makers and purchasers the importance of community-governed not-for-profit practices in meeting the needs of low-income and minority population groups... - [Internal consistency and reliability of Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool-Brasil) for child health services]Erno Harzheim
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
Cad Saude Publica 22:1649-59. 2006..These results showed that the PCATool-Brasil has adequate validity and reliability and could be used as a national instrument to evaluate primary health care after its application to other population settings in the country... - Why does a U.S. primary care physician workforce crisis matter?Robert L Phillips
Am Fam Physician 70:440, 442, 445-6. 2004 - Public health and primary care: challenges and opportunities for partnershipsBarbara Starfield
Primary Care Policy Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, USA
Ethn Dis 13:S3-12-3. 2003 - [An instrument to evaluate primary health care from the population perspective]M Isabel Pasarín
Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Piazza Lesseps 1, 08023 Barcelona, Spain
Aten Primaria 39:395-401. 2007.... - Multimorbidity's many challenges: A research priority in the UKJose M Valderas
BMJ 334:1128. 2007 - The future role of health centers in improving national healthRobert M Politzer
Office of Policy, Evaluation, and Data, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA
J Public Health Policy 24:296-306. 2003..Continued expansion of the health center network to ensure primary care for those who remain underserved is both an effective and politically acceptable strategy to improve national health... - Global health and primary care researchJohn W Beasley
Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53521, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 20:518-26. 2007..We provide suggestions to improve the global primary care research enterprise for the benefit of the world's population... - Quantifying the health benefits of primary care physician supply in the United StatesJames Macinko
RWJ Health and Society Scholars Program, University of Pennsylavnia, Philadelphia 19104 6218, USA
Int J Health Serv 37:111-26. 2007..Pooled results for all-cause mortality suggest that an increase of one primary care physician per 10,000 population was associated with an average mortality reduction of 5.3 percent, or 49 per 100,000 per year... - Wage inequality, the health system, and infant mortality in wealthy industrialized countries, 1970-1996James A Macinko
Department of Health Administration and Planning, National School of Public Health Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Soc Sci Med 58:279-92. 2004..Results suggest that improving aspects of the healthcare system may be one way to partially compensate for the negative effects of social inequalities on population health... - Why does a U.S. primary care physician workforce crisis matter?Robert L Phillips
Am Fam Physician 68:1494, 1496-8, 1500. 2003 - Validity of the health profile-types of the Spanish Child Health and Illness Profile-Adolescent Edition (CHIP-AE)Jordi Alonso
Health Services Research Unit, Institut Municipal d Investigació Mèdica IMIM Hospital del Mar, Spain
Value Health 11:440-9. 2008..To develop and validate a simplified, easy to interpret scoring system based on the health profile-types taxonomy for the Spanish version of the Child Health and Illness Profile-Adolescent Edition (CHIP-AE)... - Are social determinants of health the same as societal determinants of health?Barbara Starfield
Health Promot J Austr 17:170-3. 2006 - Specialty referral completion among primary care patients: results from the ASPN Referral StudyChristopher B Forrest
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ann Fam Med 5:361-7. 2007..This study describes referral completion from the perspectives of patients and primary care physicians and identifies predictors of adherence to the referral recommendation...